Hepatoprotective and in vivo antioxidant effects of granulometric classes and decoction of Ficus dicranostyla Mildbread leaves powders against carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatotoxicity in Wistar rats. [PDF]
The aim of this article is to evaluate the preventive, hepatoprotective effects of granulometric classes, unsieved powder and decoction fraction of Ficus dicranostyla leaf powders against carbon tetrachloride‐induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Abstract Ficus dicranostyla is a plant from the Moraceae family commonly used in African countries for its ...
Tabi Omgba Y +9 more
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Images of depression in Charles Baudelaire: clinical understanding in the context of poetry and social history [PDF]
Summary There is increasing recognition of the importance of the humanities and arts in medical and psychiatric training. We explore the poetry of Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) and its evocations of depression through themes of mood, time and self ...
G. Stanghellini, G. Ikkos
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Trichophyton mentagrophytes ITS genotype VII infections among men who have sex with men in France: An ongoing phenomenon. [PDF]
We report 32 cases of infection by Trichophyton mentagrophytes ITS genotype VII, including a cluster of 17 cases, occurring in Paris, France between 2022 and 2023. Our findings confirm the circulation of the infection among men who have sex with men (MSM).
Jabet A +26 more
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ABSTRACT “Future generations” play a key role in current political debates. In the context of the climate crisis especially, political controversies are often framed as moral problems of “intergenerational justice.” This article aims to historicize the use of the concept of “future generations” in modern political discourse and to uncover its long—and ...
Benjamin Möckel
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Out of the ordinary: Everyday life and the “carnival of Mussolini”
Abstract Ordinary life is in many ways the quintessential object of anthropological analysis. Yet little attention has been paid to contexts in which it is important to people themselves that they and their actions are seen to be ordinary and to the work that goes into making something or someone appear ordinary.
Paolo Heywood
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Encountering Spiking Neural Networks
Abstract Over the past two decades, the term “intelligent media” has surfaced to describe media that take on problematics of cognition, communication, and sensory perception loosely modeled after human intelligence. Taking the form of hardware‐software assemblages, these novel media demonstrate forms of autonomy that challenge human control and herald ...
Alexandre Saunier, David Howes
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Voicing the Queer Self: Listening to Portraits with Vernon Lee
Originating in a critical examination of Vernon Lee's perceived ugliness and her excessive talking among her acquaintances, this essay situates historically a series of portraits in which she features as a sitter, subject of comment and commentator, to suggest that the interweaving of voices and faces can be useful to resist the elision of seeing and ...
Francesco Ventrella
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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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THE BOY APPEARING (AS) THE SISTER: GENDER AND SILENCE IN GEORG TRAKL*
ABSTRACT The present text is concerned with figures of unusual gender in two poetic texts by Georg Trakl, namely ‘Traum und Umnachtung’ and ‘Ruh und Schweigen’, each of which features the same violation of German grammar at a crucial point. The first text starts and ends with a scene of a boy recognising his sister's image in the mirror, which will be ...
Juliette Christine Gruner
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Abstract “Human or Puppet?” A once popular, now forgotten performance routine explored this question on the popular stage. Concentrating on rare historical materials, this paper uncovers how “Human or Puppet?” performances looked like and how they built on and added to the early twentieth‐century cultural discourse, and trope, of the human machine ...
Anna‐Sophie Jürgens
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